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Lynn Hunt, a professor of history at UCLA and a former colleague of Faust at Penn, said Faust’s Southern upbringing shaped her sense of diplomacy...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett and Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: After Three Centuries, a Woman | 2/9/2007 | See Source »

Although Arenas played high school ball in Los Angeles, backyard power UCLA didn't recruit him. So he dashed to the desert--the University of Arizona--where he took the number 0--in his mind, the number of minutes his doubters thought he would play as a freshman. After helping the Wildcats reach the NCAA championship game in 2001, Arenas watched every team bypass him in the first round of the NBA draft. He cried. "The teams in this league said no to Gilbert Arenas," says an amazed Dallas Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson--whose team didn't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Agent Zero Saved D.C. | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...four-and-a-half-year senior. Our star earned his degree in biology and earned his stripes in basketball through years of improvement. Other schools perpetually renew their stars and stalwarts and head into each season with a fresh crop of highly-touted freshmen. Duke, UNC, Arizona, and UCLA fans out there (I know you’ve somehow made it into Harvard) might be dumbfounded by this, but I’m happy that the stars of Crimson sports almost always stick it out through four years here, even when Cambridge is far from where their athletic brilliance could...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THIS IS STEINAL TAP: Cusworth Or Oden? Give Me Four Years | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

...that it was all in good fun." Whether it was a dour-looking hitchhiker holding an axe and a pack of Budweiser, or a group of bankers in masks in a mock hold up of its customers, Sunday night 's offerings contained a decidedly dark message that, according to UCLA 's brain scans, may not translate into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Scans: How Super Bowl Ads Fumbled | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...user-generated content, Frito-Lay 's Doritos ad, which was both created by a consumer and voted on by consumers in an online contest, also ranked high as a trigger for the brain 's reward circuit. The ads that elicited little response in the ventral striatum, according to the UCLA study, included Robert Goulet 's turn as an office gremlin for Emerald Nuts and Sprint 's commercial for "connectile dysfunction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Scans: How Super Bowl Ads Fumbled | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

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